Tag Archives: solar
Peace, Love & Solar Art (Video)
To the sound of birds chirping, little green shoots of grass push up through a white expanse, growing tall and thin in short, straight lines. As light starts to play over them, their shadows begin to sway and dance, eventually forming familiar shapes. Is it real, or a digital trick?
The time-lapse “Nature Calling” video is 100 percent real,...
Solar Backpacks Built to last …and last …and last …
There’s a new, solar-powered backpack in town, and it’s called the ZenTrek. Offered in three models—the slimline Xplorer, the full-sized Instinct and the hybrid Endura—the ZenTreks line of rugged solar-powered backpacks promises to provide energy-on-the-go for your electronics, and the company is looking for help to launch its products.
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IMAGINE … Electricity-Generating Clothes WITHOUT solar panels
Photo Source: Wake Forest University
Researchers from Wake Forest’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials announced this week that they have manufactured a material that can generate electricity using your body heat.
The material, Power Felt, uses carbon nanotubes (it is, after all, a nanotechnology research institution), which have, in...
Google Invests $94 Million in Solar Energy
Rounding off a year in which the search engine giant Google invested $880 million U.S. dollars in renewable energy, the company has announced a final investment for 2011 of $94 million. The money will go to four photovoltaic projects in California.
The three parks will feed in the Sacramento utility’s new FIT scheme. Image: Recurrent Energy.
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Solar Energy for Water & Space Heating – Global Overview
The pace of solar energy development is accelerating as the installation of rooftop solar water heaters takes off. Unlike solar photovoltaic (PV) panels that convert solar radiation into electricity, these “solar thermal collectors” use the sun’s energy to heat water, space, or both.
China had an estimated 168 million square meters (1.8 billion...
First Solar Abandoning Research Project and Planing to Terminate 100 Workers
First Solar Inc. is abandoning a research project as the company slashed its profit and sales forecast Wednesday.
The Arizona company said in a filing it will terminate about 100 employees, most of them at a Santa Clara research center.
The team was developing copper-indium-gallium-selenide technology, or CIGS, said Mark Bachman, an analyst at Avian...
SANYO HIT® Solar Modules to Become Panasonic HIT®
Electric Co., Ltd., announces that as of April 1, 2012, the branding of its HIT®*[1] solar modules will change from “SANYO” to “Panasonic.” SANYO’s solar modules are recognized in North America for their power generated per square foot performance.
Unifying the solar brand is part of a wider scheme of consolidation of...
New Generation Power and Wanxiang America Get FAA and DOE Approval to Build the Largest Commercial Airport-Based Solar Power Farm in the U.S.
Rockford Solar Partners, LLC, a renewable energy development joint venture between Elgin-based Wanxiang America and Chicago-based New Generation Power, receives DOE and FAA environmental approval to proceed on America’s largest commercial airport solar farm.
Why the Chicago-Rockford International Airport for such as large 20 MW solar array? The...
China Sunergy Reaches Final Settlement with REC Wafer
China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: CSUN) (“China Sunergy” or the “Company”), a specialized solar cell and module manufacturer, today announced that it has agreed to settle all disputes with REC Wafer Norway AS (“REC Wafer”) and that REC Wafer has released the US$50 million bank guarantees. The amount held in escrow...
Belgium says no nukes, but should it?
Growing anti-nuclear sentiment in Europe has reached another milestone. FollowingGermany’s move to close all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, Belgium has decided to shut its own starting in 2015 and completing by 2025, according to a Reuters report.
Much like the companies that run Germany’s nuclear stations, Belgium’s energy operator, Electrabel,...
